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词条 Mathematica (company)
释义

  1. Early day participants

  2. Divisions

     Mathematica Products Group  Mathematica Policy Research  MathTech 

  3. References

{{For|the Wolfram's Mathematica software package|Wolfram Mathematica (software)}}Mathematica was founded by Princeton University professors in 1969 and had a multi-faceted history.[1]
  • It did consulting work, mostly "to develop mathematical models for marketing decision making."
  • a leading developer of state lottery systems
  • developer of RAMIS (software)

Early day participants

  • Oskar Morgenstern, economist; one of the company's founders (1969)
  • Tibor Fabian, Mathematica's Hungarian-born president (1980s)
  • William Baumol and William Bowen: economists, early day participants

Divisions

  • Mathematica Policy Research - the only unit still carrying the Mathematica name.
  • Mathematica Products Group - best known for developing RAMIS (software)
  • MathTech, the company's technical and economic consulting group - "research projects and computer systems other than Ramis."[1]

A quarter of a century after Mathematica's founding, it "was largely owned by a group of professors in Mathematics and Economics at Princeton University ... as this group aged, they opted to cash out by selling." The result was a 3-way split:

two units became employee-owned companies and another was sold several times.

Mathematica Products Group

In 1982, Mathematica Products Group's RAMIS (software) was described as "nonprocedural" and "bordering on artificial intelligence."[2] This unit of Mathematica was purchased by Martin Marietta Corporation in 1983,[3], and, eventually[4] by Computer Associates.

The RAMIS product sold well, initially on mainframes[5], subsequently on PCs.

Mathematica Policy Research

The Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) unit's strength was in "social experiments and surveys."[1] In 1983 MPR reported "a major survey assignment for the American Medical Association."

In 1986 it became a separate, employee-owned [https://web.archive.org/web/20100813065842/http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/ company].

MathTech

Like MPR, in 1986 MathTech became an employee-owned company. Known today as Mathtech, Inc.,[6] it was described by The New York Times as "a Washington-area educational consulting firm

[7]

References

1. ^{{cite newspaper |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 22, 1983|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/22/business/mathematica-s-shift-into-software-field.html|title=MATHEMATICA'S SHIFT INTO SOFTWARE FIELD |author=Karen W. Arenson |author-link=Karen W. Arenson}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=61054|title=Mathematica, Inc. |date=February 24, 1982}}
3. ^{{cite newspaper |newspaper=Computerworld |date=September 9, 1985 |page=6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fzlfAWYHBpQC |title=RAMIS II, PC Unison}}
4. ^including after ownership by On-Line Software International
5. ^including 40 AT&T licenses, and other known-name companies
6. ^"Mathtech Inc. was originally formed as the Strategy and Consulting arm of Princeton-based professional services firm Mathematica, Inc." {{cite web |title=History |url=http://www.mathtechinc.com/ABOUT-HISTORY}}
7. ^{{cite newspaper |newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/08/education/learning-the-facts-of-life.html|title=Learning The Facts of Life |author=James Barron|date=November 8, 1987}}

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